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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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The Art of Cocktail Conversation

58 questions for better conversations at your next party.

By Cool Material
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Daft Punk Call It Quits With 8 Min Long Epilogue Video

In case you've been living under a rock for the past few days, or you just don't care about music, the electronic musical duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo--aka Daft Punk--just called it quits with an 8 min long video titled 'Epilogue." In said video--which you can watch…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Everydays: The First 5000 Days Digital Art

Good luck framing this sucker. For the first time, Christie's is the first major auction house to put a purely digital artwork on the auction block. It's called Everydays: The First 5000 Days (2021) by digital artist Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann). It's a digital non-fungible (NFT) collage made with 5,000…

By Amos Kwon
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Topps 70th Anniversary Project70 Limited Edition Commemorative Cards

The past year or so has us looking back to what was important in our childhoods, and nothing held a place nearer and dearer to our hearts than baseball cards. Topps is celebrating their 70th anniversary this year in banner style with their line of Project70 Cards that not only…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Brutalist Architecture LEGO Models

When it comes to our personal favorite ways to pass the time, building things with LEGO bricks will always be near the top because the only limit is your imagination. We're similarly fond of brutalist type architecture because it tends to take basic shapes and building materials and utilize them…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tapping Finger Kinetic Sculpture

When it comes to objects that are fun to look at and experience but serve no useful purpose, you won't find better than the works of artist Nik Ramage, the self-described "sculptor of useless machines and absurd devices." His piece Fingers began as a one-off made in 2003 as a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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